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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-06-01
BRIGHT BITS.

EVERY cat has its night key. 1t keeps it in
| is voice.-BurIington Free Press.
MEN will spend 81 at the bar while declaimng
against the outrage of charging 25c. admission
to a temperance lecture.-Terds Sfftings.
A MILLION GIRLS rolled into one would not
have 1.-THE of the vanity of the man whose
youth is past and whose old age has not begun.
Philadelphia Neics
WISE MAN has Just rushed into print to
declare that Jonah was swallowed by an earth.
quake. 0, yes; that's reasonable enough; ill.,
stead of a fish it was a fssure.-Burdette.
A TRAMP recently told Detroit sergeant of
police that he was so hungry for something to
drink that he hadn't sufficient clothing to keep
himself warm. He was given a bath.-Detroit
Free Press.
NERVOUS lady passenger in the train, after
passing temporary bridge-Thank goodness,
we are now on terra firIna
Facetious gentleman-Yes, ma'am. Less
terror and more trmer-Ihe Judge.
BREAK, break break,
On thy cold gray stones, 0 sea,
Broke, broke, broke.
Is the song that you sing to me-
Courier Journal.
In the early days of the Territory, when there
was prairie everywhere, we have seen the wind
get started little under the corner of a county
and keep working in till pretty soon it peeled
the whole thing off and rolled it away-Dokota
Bell.
ANNA JONES, of South Bend, Ind.
Was an overgrown, tall thind,
Her tongue was SO bitter
Her friends they all quit her,
And they called the poor girl Wind.
Chicago Tribune.
THIS is the kind we pay Dalliaferro:
"a Roland for your Alliaferro,"
Said witty Mr.. Taliaferro
Concerning one
Who made pone
About the famous Balliaferro.
Life
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-06-01

JOHN MARDEN, mechanic, of Phoenix, R. l.,
took home pieee of beef the other day, and
his wife put it il the big dinner-pot to boil,
throwing handful of rice in with it, A few
minutes later the pot Exploded with great
violence, injuring John, WHO was sitting near
steaming beef plump into lis 'T wife's lap. The
explosion is supposed to haveSesulted from the
gas generated by the rice, whish was found to
have been burned on the bottom of the pot.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-06-01

A TIsHoMINGo q. T) coRREsptSDENT writes:
"A few miles south of the mount4in is a station
on the railroad known as Seven Hundred
Ranch It has a rather interesting history A
short time back number of the citizens of the
Nation, wealthy cattlemen, met here in a tent
to play game of poker There were six in the
party, and the ante was 800 and 81 400to draw
. cards. For some time the game continued until
over $4,000 had changed hands when it broke
up. Ever since this point has been known as
Seven Hundred RANCH"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-06-01

A LITTLE daught9 of Mrs Rhodes, of Leroy,
ILL.,, fell into a veil Twelve feet deep and half full
of water. When HE mother discovered IL e
child it was lying Unconscious on its tack on top
OF the water She eailed her S-year-old daugL-
ter, and tekingAer by the feet held her down
headtoremost Until she could reach the baby,
and then puledbotA out at the same time. TIE
baby was restoPd to consciousness and is now
doing as well ascould be expected
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-06-01

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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1887-08-12
SQUIBS.

The Puyallup Indians were granted
the right of suffrage by the last congress
and many of them will vote this fall.
Some negroes enjoying a picnic at San
dersville, Ga, discovered snake in q
watermelon. A cooler place for the
whisky bottle couldn't be found.
In 1877, I. NJ. Borland of Jefferson
county, Pennsylvania, planted one grain
of Australian wheat obtained at the
centennial exposition. The product from
it this year amounts to sixty bushels.
Flint young ladies are reyiving the
baby stare, which means TO take a square,
open eyed look at everything, men in
clu1ed. The News of that place advises
the girls mothers TO revive the old fash
ioned baby spank.
lady who was re6orting at Petoskey,
Mich, put phos phorus on her bunion the
other night and retired. In the night
the husband spied The glowing thing, and
sizing it up for tirefy banged it with
the bootiack, She never speaks to him
now without punching him with the
crutch which she has since been obliged
to wear.
The Pennington county (Dakota) grand
jury has found indictments against Por-
ter Warner, editor of the Deadwood
Times; Boham and Kelly, of the Dead
wood Pioneer; Thomas III. White, mining
engineer and correspondent Of the New
York Mining Record and London News,
charging them with criminal libel IN
pronouncing the Big Bend Hydraulic
Mining company fraud.
Somebody has invented carving knife
that works like pair of scissors. That
is all right. Many man will rejoice at
the opportunity TO put upon his wife the
duty of carving.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1887-08-12
THE LATEST TELEGRAMi
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

| MRs. LOGAN has still further improved,
| and her physician thinks she nay leave
her bed In few days.
| FROM January to June of this year there
were TO- ,236 deaths from cholera in Chill,
and the government spent S1,0O0O00 in
| fighting the plague.
The heavy forest fires in the vicinity
| and along the line of the Detroit and
Lansing road are causing considerable
! damage. Several farmers have lost fields
of ripe grain.
LARGE tracts of pasturage in Grundy
county, Illinois, have been destroyed by
| fire recently. The fences have also been
| burned.
| TWENTY-FIVE buildings in the business
| portion of Bowling Green, Wood county,
Ohio, were burned Thursday morning.
FIRE in Vanderbilt's stone and lumber
| yards at Broughton, Ohio, destroyed
| large quantity of material. The factory
| was saved. Loss, $4,000; no insurance.
Property owned by Petit Dripps, of
Washington.
EXTENSIVE fires west of Cedar Springs,
| Mich, are the cause of uneasiness to
farmers. The heat is having bad effect
on the corn crop. The fires are reported
as burning tiercely in the swamp at Maple
Hill
AN East Tawas, Mich, dispatch says the
forest fires are now within three miles of
| this place, and are burning very valu-
able tract of cedar. The farmers are
fighting the flames to save their crops
and fences.
FOREST fires are raging around Howard
City, Tastin, Cadillac, South Boardman,
and other points in Michigan. Consider
able damage has been done to crops and
timber and fences. The flames menace
some of the towns.
The Rev. EIeazer Root, a we'll known
Wisconsin divine, dieu at Jacksonville,
Fla, from the results of a fall. He was
q member of the Constitutional COnven-
tlOn of Wisconsin, member of the first
Board of Regents of Wisconsin State
University, and held other offices.
AT Hillsboro, Ill, a steam threshing
machine belonging to David Atterbury,
living southwest of here, caught fire this
morning from hot box and was entirely
consumed. The fire spread rapidly, burn
ing several miles of fence and destroy
ing large quantity of grain. The loss
is estimated at So, 500, with no insurance.
FIRE at Baltimore, Thursday morning,
destroyed James ID. Mason & Sons crack
er bakery, Henderson, Laws Co.'s
cracker, cake and candy factory, and the
stove warehouse of Liebrant, Mcdowell
d Co. Portions of the stores of +. Whit
man d Sons, Newton Kurtz j. Son, L. B.
Owens d Co, and L. l.. Parker Co,
were also burned. fireman was buried
in the ruins, and Chief Engineer Hen
nick, of the fire department, was fatally
hurt. The financial loss exceeds $780,,
600
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1887-08-12
WASHINGTON.

Mrs. GENERAL j. A. LOGAN has arrived IL
Washington and is attended by Surgeon
General Hamilton, who found, on exami
nation, that her shoulder was dislocated
If this discovery is as alleged, it is not a
mark OF credit to the doctors out this
way who failed to find it out.
SECRETARY FAIRCHILD directed the an.
ticipation of the interest on the public
debt due September 1st and January Isl
with two per cent. rebates, and invite
proposals for the sale of four and one
half per cent. bonds for the sinking
fund.
THE transpacifc tea trade now largely
exceeds the shipments By way of the Suez
canal. During the present season S,4lS,
448 pounds of tea came to the United
States and Canada, of which only 4,725,-
544 pounds came by way of the canal.
The steamer Olympia, which arrived at
Victoria from Sitka yesterday, reports
the seizure of fresh lot of British and
American schooners by the United States
revenue cutter Rush. The seizure is due
to alleged illegal seal-fshing.
ASSISTANT Postmaster General Steven
son has accepted an invitation to deliver
the annual address before the united ag-
ricultural associations of the Fifth Him
ois congressional district. which meet in
Woodstock next month. Mr.. Stevensou's
address will be review of the progress
of Illinois and the influence exerted by
the state upon the civilization of the
great West.
MONDAY at Washington, Surgeon Gen.
Hamilton, assisted by Manning Logan
and Major Tucker, reset Mrs. John A.
Logan's fractured shouldor-blad and
elbow, the surgeon having made the dis
covery that the parts had begun to knit
in the wrong places. The operation was
entirely successful, and Mrs. Logan
though suffering intense pain, is report
ed to be resting quietly without suffering
any i'll effects from the ether she inhaled
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1887-08-12
FOREIGN.

THE chamber of deputies has adopted a
bill abollshing the system of paying work
men in factories in goods instead of
money.
The tribunal at Charleroi has awarded
NJ. Baudoux $4,000 for the destruction
of his glass works, which were burned
during the riots at Jumet.
HERR BALLAST, an eminent author, and
the secretary of the national theater, has
committed suicide on the grave of his in
fant daughter, who died in 1874.
The cholera has appeared in the island
of Malta. In Chill, for the six months
ending June 80, 1887, 1926 deaths
had occurred.
MISS CASE. the young woman whose ar
rest in Regent street, London, was made
prominent state matter in the house of
commons, has determined to prosecute
the policeman who arrested her for per
jury.
The strike on the Midland railroad in
England seems to be on the eve of a col
lapse. The strikers are badly organized
and many of them are returning to work.
The claim of Mr.. Frank Hugh O'Don-
nell, who has sued The London Times
for Gbeling him in It's articles on "Pac-
nellism and Crime" is for $250,0
damages. Leading Parnell men will be
called as witnesses.
THE bill to allow the construction of
tunnel under the English channel,
which was re-introduced in the house of
commons by Sir Edward Watkins, was
rejected Wednesday afternoon by a vote
of 1873 to 105.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1887-08-12
CRIME AND CRIMINALS

Mrs. ANNA SMoorE was arrested San
day night at GAINESVILLE, Ohio, for poison
ing her 3-year old child with paris green.
Two other children of the woman have
died suddenly within ten years.
AUGUST DUNN, who committed forger-
les at Parker, d. T., and Peoria, H., was
arrested Wednesday morning at Mime
apolis, and was taken to Dakota on an
evening train.
THE Rev. West, who is wanted at st.
Louis for the murder of Susie Beck, was
at London, Ontario, last Tuesday, where
after paying visit to his brother, he
again disappeared
A WRIT of er or in the Maxwell Preller
murder case was granted by Chief Justice
Mills, of the United States Supreme
Court, Thursday. Acting as supersede
as, the writ prevents the execution Aug.
26.
MENTOR SMITH, a ten-year- boy, liy
ing near Fulton, Missouri, has been ar
| arrested for shooting his father, Herson
Smith. He says that he was persuaded
| to do it by his sister and colored boy,
| and that his father did not treat him
we'll.
MILES NORRIS, of Jalapa Post, Ind, was
| fatally injured Thursday, by the prema-
| ture discharge of cannon, in the sham
| battle which marked the close of the sol
diers' reunion at Marion. Major George
! W. Steele was slightly injured by the
| reckless firing of another cannon.
| DANIEL DREW murdered John Mackes-
| sey at Lafayette, Ind, early Thursday
| morning, and injured Mrs. Drew in such
| q manner that it is thought she can not
| recover. Drew, his wife, and the murder
| ed man had been drinking, and were all
| under the influence of liquor at the time
/ of the tragedy.
| Miss JESSIE HOLMES, clerk of the burst
| Fidelity Bank at Cincinnati, who was ar
rested and imprisoned in default of S10,-
| 600 bail, on a charge of aiding and abett
| ing Hsrper, was released Wednesday. 1t
is understood that she will testify for the
| prosecution.
| DEPUTY SHERIFF BUCK Sr.NLEY, of
| Logausport, H., started from Marion
| with q prisoner named Richard Adkins.
| alias WINDY Disk" at 8 O'Clock Tues day
| morning. When his team rescued Bun
ker Hill four of the windy mans pals set
on the officer. beat him into insensibility,
| and rescued the prisoner. Stsnley's con-
| ditien is critical.
FLETcHKR FRANBLIN, member of the
old Jesse James gang, while being pur-
sued by a sheriff's posse, near Craig, Mo-,
shot and killed Anthony Delong
and Gideon Boswell. Franklin, his
brother Con, and Harrison Stone had ss-
capped from officers, having been arrested
fer horse-stealing.
The analysis of the stomach of Susie
Beck, of Chesterton, Ind, who passed at
st. Louis as the wife of the Rev. West,
showed large quantity of arsenic Tne
Chief OF Police OF st. Louis has issued
circulars, giving a description of West,
and cslling for his arrest as a murderer.
sIs Erie street, at Jersey City, n. J..
Monday afternoon, Joseph Schlimmer,
aged Is, shot his wife Lille. 16 years of
age. It had been agreed that the couple
should not live together for two years,
but the murderer had endeavored to per
suade his girlwife to leave her parents
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1887-08-12
Important Rules

Pasted over the desk of the city editor
of Georgia paper are the following in
structions:
"Al brides are lovely, beautiful and
accomplished, except they be old and
tough widows, and then they are smiable
and cultivated.
"All merchants who advertise are enter
prising, wide-awake and credit to our
city. The names of those who do not ed
vertise must not appear in our paper.
"All old lawyers are able and worthy of
place on the Supreme bench. Young
lawyers are promising and silvery ton
gued.
"Condustors on passenger trains are
gentlemenly and courteous.
Doctors are eminent.
Farmers are intelligent.
candidates who put their announce
ments in our paper are gaining ground
every day. Those who do not announce
are likely to be defeated.
Under no circumstances must these
rules be broken. F. Meddleton Pryor
editor and proprietor"
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1887-08-12
A New jersey Wedding

Mr.. John Duryea Crane, aged 10 years,
and Miss Rachel Speer, residing at Pine
Brook, n. j., were married Thursday after
noon at the residence of the bride. This
il the groom's third matrimonial venture.
Il is the habit of the youth of that region
to vent their enthusiasm over matrimou-
ial events by assembling in the evening
abou. the house in which the happy cou-
pie are lodged and there dischargiDg FIRE
arms To an accompaniment of hootings
and beating upon tin pans and blowing
upon tin horns. Although Mr.. Cranes
marriage came upon them suddenly, they
rose to the emergency 1t was generally
admitted by oldest inhabitants and local
experts in such matters that the riot
about the Crane house Thursday evening
| had more variety and volume than any
| known in years. Mr. Crane had antici-
| pated some expression of popular good
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1887-08-12

home. Failing in this, he met her in the
street with her mother and grandmother.
shot her dead, and fed.
5AT christening in Brooklyn Sunday
night Daniel Mullen and Dennis Dillon
appeared as unbidden guests, and volun-
teered to ''clean out the whole party.
They drew their knives and sailed in,
and terrible fight followed. Michael
Mullen, aged 19, was killed, and his sister,
Mrs. Annie Pearl, fatally wounded. Two
others were cut, but not seriously.
BooDLER MCGARIGLE is at Sarnia, Can
ada. His wife and children will arrive
there tonight. The Blake, on which he
escaped, was disguised by hanging
blankets over her sides, net by repaint
ing her. The escape was fully planned
down to the last details. McGarigle
says that he will return to Chicago after
everything is settled. He is evidently
prepared for long stay.
TIE jury in the boodlers' case returned
a verdict, finding all the defendants
guilty, and fixing the punishment of Nc
Claughry, Ochs. Leyden, Narnell, Van
Pelt, Wren and Wasserman at two years
imprisonment, and that of Mccarthy,
Oliver, Casselman and Cells at fine of
$1,000. The effect of the trial will be to
vacate the places of Commissioners Wren,
Oliver, Klehm, McClaughry, Mccarthy,
Cells and Cassleman on the county board
as soon as sentence is passed on them.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1887-08-12
A Place of Rest
Exchange

where shall we go this summe. dear?"
asked Mr.. Flyaway. "Well let's see," re-
pliees her husband, 'Iast Winter we got
malaria in Florida:n yes, and the
aIligators got or pointer dog" ''And
the proceeding summer we got the rheu-
natism in the mountainst" "We did,
and the bears got my little Skye ter
rier." And the Summer before that we
went to the sea-shore and got bled by
the mosquitoes and the Iandl ord" 'Yes.
"And the summer before that He
went into the country, and the children
were laid up all Summer with ivy poison
~ emember." well, if feel as strong
as / used to, I'd like first rate TO take q
vacation this summer, but I'm feeling
kind of weak and listless, and I'm afraid
| couldn't stand it, Lets stay at home
and rest this year"
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1887-08-12

TUE commissioner of patents has
directed that an extension of the patent
for certain futing machine be exteE Eded
seven years from June /, 1888. This will
be the first case in ten years i'll which an
extension of patent has been granted.
The last case was in 1873 wi en- the patent
on wood pulp was extended for seven
years, making the total life of the patent
twenty-four years. This extension of
the life of the patent was at that time
condemned by popular opinions, and for
that reason no enabling acts of this
character have been adopted by congress.
From the way in which the barge Theo
dore Perry went to the bottom of Lake
Erie on the 23rd of July, an excellent
lesson may be drawn as to the classified
tion of lakecarrying craft. The Perry
was the center one of three vessels in tow
of propeller. During d gale its tow
post was pulled out and it collapsed like
house of cards, and sank to the bottom,
carrying five out of its crew of seven men.
The frightful suddenness of the catas-
Deering, the mate, one of the two men
rescued. At a few minutes after ten
O'Clock one OF the crew asked him the
time, and in less than three minutes after
the officers watch was back in his pocket,
the vessel was sinking under his feet.
The need of better technical aud com
mercial education is attracting attention
In England at present After a consider
able amount of investigation and discus
sion upon technical education, bill deal
ing with the subject has been introduced
in the House of Commons. This bill
enables the local authorities to tax the
people for tho establishment of technical
schools or for supplementing existing ele,
mentary education with technical instruc
tion. 1t is found, however, that not only
Is technical education more backward in
England than on the continent, but that
in the matter of commercial education
also England is behind some of the con
tinental nations. English clerks, it is
found, have greater difficulty in finding
employment than, for example, German
clerks. So noticeable has this become
that the London Chamber of Commerce
lately undertook to ascertain the reason
for it
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1887-08-12

GEORGE DRUMmoND, otherw ise Lord
Drummond, who died penniless in New
York hospital last Friday, was disowned
by his family for marrying out of his
social circle. Coming to America to
make his home, he was able to support
his wife and child until oyertaKen by con
sumption. He could have been rich and
honOred if he had abandoned his wife,
but there was enough genuine nobility in
his character not to purchase alleged no
bility at such a price.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1887-08-12
Hint 10 Suffering Wives.

iexss SfuL2s
Mrs. Al wish / snew what to do when
my husband comes home tight.
Mrs. B.-I have adopted plan that has
almost cured my husband
What is it?''
You know the boozy fellows pull them
selves up By the bannister?"
Just 80. Do you take away the ban
ister?'
well. not precisely, but you came very
near guessing 1t As soon as he starts
for the lodgeI grease the banister, and
when be tries to pull himself up by it his
hands slip, and he keeps on going and
going and never getting anywhere, like q
horse on a threshing machine. If you
want to be amused. grease the banister,
and watch the poor fellow try to pull him
self up stairs. After awhile he will get
tired coming home tight
Money IL made twice; man makes it,
and then his wife makes it-go.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1887-08-12
His Funniest Experience
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Chicago Journal

"The funniest thing I ever ran across
in the 10 years have held this position
happened yesterday" said my friend,
the ticket agent. "A young man came to
the window and bought 10-ride family
ticket. After paying for it he asked me
to punch out seven rides. I didn't ex-
actly understand what he wanted, and
told him the conductor would attend 10
that all right enough. He then explained
to me that his wife had given him ticket
that morning containing four rides: he
had used one coming in and lost the
ticke. during the daE, and rather than
admit having lost it he bought the new
ticket and had the same number of rides
punched out"
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1887-08-12
Wedding at GAINESVILLE

JANE syILLE, Wis, Aug. 9.-Dr. Oscar
King, superintendent of Oakwood Re
treat, Geneva Lake, and Miss Minerva
Guernsey, of this city, were married at
All Souls church this morning. The
affair was one of the social events of the
season, as both parties are very promin
ent. DR.. King is one of the ablest of
the younger physicians Of the state and
Miss Guernsey is well known as Shakes
pearean actress, having been leading
lady for season IN the company OF
George W. Min.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1887-08-12

The ten days national prohibition
at Oakland Park, near Decatur, H., closed
Monday, with 5000 people in attendance
1t has been a political meeting from the
beginning, the speakers urging aggressive
third party action in all the states, par
ticuIarly in Illinois.